Re: solid state drive access and context switching

[Alan Cox]

> microseconds level and an order of magnitude higher bandwidth than
> SATA.  Is that fast enough to warrant this more synchronous IO?

See the mtd layer.

> BTW - This trend toward faster, lower latency busses is marching
> forward.  2 examples; the ioDrive from Fusion IO, Micron's RAM-module
> like SSD concept.

Very much so but we can do quite a bit in 10,000 processor cycles ...

Alan
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